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total rubbish mate, only people who say that don't have a clue about correct setup. Usual drivel I hear is people saying they keep the oil too cool. when the reality is they bought a cheap kit that didn't come with thermostatic control. aka a sandwich plate only diverts oil too the cooler when the temp goes over a certain temp..

tbh more sounds like it may need an oil cooler.

ask ten people and you'll get 10 different answers, personaly wouldn't let duncan map my toaster let alone my subaru. Who ever you use make sure they have proper insurance, if its road mapped and your driving it your own insurance does not cover you

welcome :) Local to me :)

Standard turbo is unlikley to make 300, so unless you wanna spend quite a bit that will be your limiting factor

Be difficult to find one thats in decent condition given the age. can you get it rebuilt instead?

philistines hahaha

1999 will have 440 injectors as standard. not worth swapping to 450's, if you wanna change em then need to go to 550's o also recomend changing the spark plugs for 7's and also the fuel pump

duck me thats a big !Removed!,,,,, hahahaha

you guys on ps4 or xbox? anyone else playing pc?

Without out the turbo, imprezas are pretty dam bullet proof. Suffer from typical bodywork issues like rear arches, but with the lower power they run and run and run. Decent service history and check they havnt been crashed, but beyond that there a very goo car. Only downside to em is they arn't great on fuel even none turbo.

O hang on scratch that, that was the SL hawk wrx

I thought the S got leather seats and sunroof?

100% fuel will be water **** now, wouldn;t surprise me if the fuel pump has siezed as well

now at lvl 20 :D

Hawk on are 2.5 wrx + sti JDM are all 2.0 :)

no, still on top mount matey. when gearbox is done will prob have one fitted sop can be pushed to 400 ish

no probs. things like that could be a whole raft of different problems, you could do loads of things and still not fix it where as a specialist who knows them should be able to narrow it down quicker and cheaper

Cant tell what gear the graph was run in, on a 6 speed it should be 4th which sugests when it was mapped it was running over 5500rpm

Given he issues your having i would recommend finding a specialist who knows what their doing.

got the power graph?

bit low for rev limit as standard, has it been mapped?

If I was buying a 2.5 then i would pick it up and drop it straight off for a bottom end rebuild (rods, pistons, head studs and associated gaskets etc, heads shouldn't need dooing), but i can tell you three things, 1. its pot luck if yours goes or not 2. its cheaper to sort the engine before it goes than after its gone, when they go they can in the worst case write off the whole engine 3. a properly built forged 2.5 will run 450bhp reliably for many years then if you rally wanna go the whole hog have it closed deck convert and go for 550, like i have haha

get it sniff tested as the next stage i would sugest

stood for 8 years i would expect some of the typical things like rocker cover gaskets leaking, crank seals leaking, plus as said a full major service. has the engine turned over since it was parked or is it literally sat for 8 years?